Celestia's words held in their minds for what seemed like an eternity. Not even a gasp was audible from any of them.

Finally, a blue pegasus gained the courage to speak.

"W-What?!"

Well how anti-climactic.

"I thought Nightmare Moon was created from Princess Luna being jealous of your sun!" Twilight said, baffled.

"I had to think of a reason that wasn't so grim. You wouldn't want to be teaching your children about how a necromancer raised the corpses of the many ponies and griffins he killed and how he sent them against us, would you?" Celestia asked rhetorically.

"Yeah, Ah guess yer right. Wouldn't wanna have Apple Bloom thinkin' one of those things is in her room when she's tryin' ta sleep." Applejack added.

"So, how are we gonna stop-" Before the multicolored pegasus could finish her sentence, the ground began to shake violently. The clouds swirled into a maelstrom in the sky, and the once blue sky we knew turned into a dark green. The girls saw something in the corner of their eyes that made them want to puke. The trees in the Everfree Forest began to fall into a massive sinkhole, and out from the hole emerged a gargantuan, black Pyramid. The Pyramid was adorned with massive spikes, skulls and bones. Hanging from each face of the pyramid were huge, sickly green flags, identical to the ones the girls saw in the throne room. At the top of the pyramid, there wasn't a point. There was a flat, square top, giant pillars portruding from each corner. In the middle of each of the conduits, was a green crystal.

And then they heard a sound that made them freeze in fear. Battle cries and roars could be heard all across equestria as an endless swarm of skeletons, zombies and ghould alike began charging out of the Everfree Forest, ready to kill in their master's name.

"OH TIIAAA~" Sung a familiar voice that seemed to be coming from the floating pyramid. "I'M BAAAAACK! DON'T TELL ME YOU'VE FORGOTTEN? I WOULDN'T BE SUPRISED. IT'S BEEN SO LONG." The voice began to howl with psychotic laughter.

Princess Celestia turned to the six after staring for what felt like an eternity.

"Come with me. Now." She walked back into the throne room and over to a massive, regal door. She inserted her horn into the keyhole (A/N: eughh. hopefully this won't be posted on clopfic directory by somepony after that.) and the door opened with a shining light.

"Hopefully they won't be missing this time." Rarity joked. They all chuckled at the memory.

Standing on a marble pedistal was a gem incrested chest. Princess Celestia opened the box with her magic and pulled out the Elements of Harmony. Each of them floated to their respective mares.

"Can you teleport us to that.. thing?" Rainbow Dash asked, eager to kick some zombie butt. The alicorn's horn glowed white light, but then quickly fizzled. She tried again, same result. Once again. Her magic was no use.

"That gem is interfering with my magic. You'll have to.." Celestia gulped audibly. "You'll have to fly up there. The trip there will be barbaric. I'm sure he has some sort of ranged defense." As if on cue, a platoon of Pegasus guards began flying up to the Pyramid. The crystal glowed with a blinding green light as a green beam of energy blasted an entire group of them out of the sky. It repeated this until the Pegasi had to retreat back to the castle, and the whole scene was outside one of the many stain glass windows. The girls turned to Celestia.

"It's the only way." She walked over to the landing pad. A white chariot adorned with a golden trim sat at the edge. The alicorn's horn glowed with a white light as the chariot began to shine. "This spell should protect you if... you get hit." She shuddered at the thought. The six mares hopped onto the chariot, and it took off. The crystal charged up, and shot a beam at the chariot that barely missed. The beam tried to catch up to them but they were just slightly faster than it. The beam dissapated, and the crystal began to charge up again. This time, the beam hit the chariot directly.

But instead of destroying the chariot completely, it left only a scorch mark. The chariot landed onto the top of the Pyramid. There was nothing on top besides the conduits and the crystal.

"Wait, where is he?" Rainbow Dash asked, confused.

"RIGHT HERE, MY DEAR." The voice echoed through their heads as a ball of green lightning appeared in front of them, and with a burst of energy the lich Marloc Fyrestone appeared in its place. "SO, WHAT BRINGS YOU HERE? ARE YOU HERE FOR DINNER? ARE YOU HERE TO JUST HANG OUT AS FRIENDS?" He said sarcastically.

"We're here to stop you!" Rainbow Dash shouted, flying towards the necromancer. In a burst of green lightning, he dissapeared and reappeared three feet away, causing Rainbow Dash to crash into one of the pillars.

"POOR LITTLE RAINBOW CRASH." He said with a cackle. Rainbow Dash filled with rage as she flew towards him once more.

"Rainbow Dash, wait!" Twilight shouted. The pegasus didn't hear her. Marloc raised his staff and hit her across the head with it, sending her flying with a rainbow following her. "HOMERUN, MOTHERFUCKER!" He howled with laughter. Applejack charged towards him. He slammed his staff into the ground, causing skeletal hands to reach out and grab Applejack's hind legs.

"He's too powerful to fight physically! We need to combine the elements!" Twilight shouted to the others. The rainbow haired pegasus climbed back up to the top of the pyramid, rolling over on her back to catch her breath.

"That's... the best.. you've GOT?" She said, panting.

"MY LITTLE PONY, YOU'RE TOO STUBBORN FOR YOUR OWN GOOD. NOW, ABOUT THAT 'COMBINING THE ELEMENTS' YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT. I'D LIKE TO SEE THAT." He said, facing the group. Rainbow Dash joined the group, their necklaces, and crown, began to glow with energy. They closed their eyes as they began to hover in a circle around a pillar of magical energy. They opened their eyes, which glowed with a white light from the power. A rainbow shot out of the pillar, heading directly for Marloc Azuremyst. He was engulfed in a multicolored twister.

As the energy from them cleared, as did the rainbow, all that was left was a crown and a staff. The girls cheered. Their celebration was broken by an evil laughter. Marloc Azuremyst appeared in place of the crown and staff in a burst of green energy.

"What!?" The girls shouted in unison.

"YOU CAN'T KILL A LICH, SILLY EQUINES." The lich laughed.

"I-I don't understand! How did the elements to nothing!?" Then it hit her. His staff was the source of all his power. Maybe, just maybe.. "Rainbow Dash! Distract him!" The blue mare saluted and began flying circles around the pyramid.

"YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU SAY YOU'RE GOING TO DISTRACT ME LOUD ENOUGH FOR ME TO HEAR, I WON'T BE DISTRA-" He was cut off by an orange cowpony snatching his staff out of his hands and running towards the others with it in her teeth. Twilight removed the staff from Applejack's mouth, holding up to the orange mare. She turned around, raised her hind legs and bucked the staff, shattering it.

"NO! YOU FOOLS!" Marloc shouted. The pieces of the staff began to vibrate wildly, before exploding into splinters. Marloc fell onto his hands and knees, wretching. A green, magma like substence began flowing from his mouth onto the floor, he screamed in agony as he got off of his hands and looked at the mares in fear. A green mist began to come out of the molten stuff he released, it swirled around him as he let out an ear shattering cry of pain, the mist flowing into his eye sockets, nose and mouth. He fell to the ground, the runes on his bones pulsing with a green light as he exploded into a cloud of green smoke, which evaporated quickly. The hundreds upon thousands of undead back on the ground immediatly stopped what they were doing, and screamed into the sky, green mist flowing from their mouths and eyes before exploding in a green mist aswell. The green crystal began to shoot off bolts of lightning before eventually imploding, causing the Necropolis to fall out of the sky. They were each enveloped in a white energy, before appearing back inside Canterlot Castle, Princess Celestia waiting for them.

"You did it." She said, embracing them all with her wings.

Loud cheering and whistling could be heard from outside the castle. They walked outside onto the balcony as they watched the clouds dissapate and the sky regain it's blue hue.

AND THEN THEY ALL LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER, BLAH BLAH BLAH, YOU KNOW HOW IT GOES.

THE AUTHOR IS JUST TOO LAZY TO ADD A BETTER ENDING SO HE PUT ME IN.